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The Order of Canons Regular of Prémontré (Latin: Candidus et Canonicus Ordo Praemonstratensis), also known as the Premonstratensians, the Norbertines and, in Britain and Ireland, as the White Canons [2] (from the colour of their habit), is a religious order of canons regular of the Catholic Church founded in Prémontré near Laon in 1120 by Norbert of Xanten, who later became Archbishop of ...
The Norbertine rite ("Norbertine" is another name for the Premonstratensians) differs from the Roman Rite in the celebration of Mass, the Liturgy of the Hours and the administration of the Sacrament of Penance. Its liturgical books were reprinted by order of the general chapter held at Prémontré in 1738. A new edition of the Missal and the ...
The building's design physically represents the history of the Norbertine Order, with a "spine stretching from west to east", at heart of the structure. [6] The design reflects the Cistercian ideals of Norbert of Xanten's friend, St. Bernard of Clairvaux, whose Cistercians are a similar movement to Norbert's Premonstratensians.
St. Norbert College in De Pere, Wisconsin, is the first institution of higher education to be founded by the Norbertine order. St. Norbert College also houses the Center for Norbertine Studies, a collaborative partnership between the college and the Premonstratensian order. [15]
In January 2021, at the start of the 900th anniversary year of the founding of the Norbertine Order, the community of St. Michael's Abbey moved from its original location on El Toro Road to its new location: 327 acres on Silverado Canyon Road, 8 miles away. With the new facility came a new worship space as well, the Church of Our Lady of the ...
Pennings was a Norbertine Priest sent from Berne Abbey, Netherlands, who founded the Premonstratensian Order in the United States. Daylesford Abbey, near Philadelphia. The Abbey is situated on 88 acres (0.36 km 2 ) in Willistown Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania , a few miles from the Philadelphia Main Line 's Paoli Platform, in the Roman ...
Hugo had long planned to write a full and detailed history of the Norbertine Order, and in 1717 the general chapter of the order had encouraged him to carry out his plan by naming him historiographer of the order and by requesting all the abbots to give him all the information they possessed concerning their abbeys. The first two volumes of the ...
A Premonstratensian priory was opened in 1888 by a community of Canons who came over from France in 1882. The land the Priory is built on was granted by Henry Fitzalan-Howard, 15th Duke of Norfolk, and the foundation stone of the Priory Church was laid in 1902 [1] by Cardinal Bourne, Archbishop of Southwark.